According to ET, the San Francisco based company which provides online storage, has no immediate plans to open an office in India but it is keen to partner with Indian mobile service providers and web companies that can take Dropbox to the country’s rapidly growing smartphone and internet user base.

Sujay Jaswa, vice-president and business development head at Dropbox, while informing about the development, also shared that the cloud storage firm is in talks with “several Indian companies, including large corporations”, which could be potential customers. However, he declined to name companies as the talks are at an early stage.

Valued at about $10 billion (Rs. 61,000 crore), Dropbox, in the recent times, has seen a steady rise in its user base in India, thanks to the increasing popularity of smartphones and mobile applications in the country.

The move to concentrate on the country to tap the digital population is a rational one by Dropbox. While the web population still remains under 13% i.e. more than 230 million people, the smartphone penetration in the country has spiked up as also the time spent on the device.

However, around 80% of the population is on the feature phone market and internet remains a challenge in the country. That’s why we are witnessing the Facebook alliance with Uniliver in India to bring internet closer to the people who have been barred from it.